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"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."
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"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."

"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."

"Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met."

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."

"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."

"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
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"I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas."


"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."


"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well."


"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."


"For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write."


"I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do."


"In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely."


"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."


"Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went."


"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
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